Hybrid Educating: Becoming Tomorrow's Teacher Today

Most students who make the conscious choice to learn English are learning for their future in the workplace and to be better functioning global citizens. This adds a new dimension to the need for specialized content, context and communication ability. Because of this, today's students are making more and more demands on the profile of their teachers. Do they have a business background? Do they have business experience? As the market has been growing, many talented and devoted teachers have decided to tackle these skills without any background, training or plan for providing quality classes to meet the needs of tomorrow's professional.

Yesterday's English teacher is fast becoming a "Workplace Communication Trainer" requiring advanced communication skills while employing teaching, mentoring and coaching techniques. We are now offering a hybrid model with a focus on Career Readiness. The steps teachers could be taking to succeed in this new field will be discussed.

This talk will also look at some of the basic misunderstandings that have taken place within different groups of trained, expert educators, native and non-native alike, due to our own varying cultural backgrounds and offer up better methods to avoid potentially serious errors or miscommunications for ourselves and our students through examination of our own cultural voicing.

20 Ideas for Managing a Business English class for Adults

Working with adults in a Business English learning/teaching session can have its challenges, and present new teachers with situations that can lead to some bumps. In many cases, teachers mistakenly use the same techniques they use for teaching general English to teach Business English to adults.

What do teachers, who are working with adults in a Business English context, need to know to support their adult participants effectively, professionally, and to support their learner's to achieve their personal learning goals?

Based on the extensive research carried out on Adult Learning, this webinar will cover 20 basic ideas any teacher needs to know in order to have success in their Business English training session.

Role-Plays: do they Prepare for Business Communications?

A lot of Busness English teachers believe that role-play activities are important as they might help students become more confident and feel more relaxed in real life situations.
We have interviewed about 50 ex-students, who stated that there was a huge gap between role-playing in the classroom and real situations. Role-playing in the safety of a classroom can't help overcome anxiety and prepare for a variety of challenging and difficult situations. The reason is cortisol, a stress hormone, which hinders memory recall.
But stress can be beneficial. How to control stress and get out the most of 'good' stress with RPG (Role-Playing Games) techniques I'll explain in my talk.

Business English for Business People. How to teach them and create long-term productive cooperation?

I will dwell on modern trends in teaching business English. Share with you my experience and skills which I believe are essential for Business English Trainer. In addition I will provide you with practical training techniques from my EMBA education. See you there!

Teaching communication – what do we actually need to teach?

In this online session, I will look at how to teach spoken communication in the Business English classroom, and what that actually entails. Communication is the key interaction in international business, and many students are lost when they have to deal with unfamiliar accents or when they are not sure if they understood people correctly, or vice, versa, if they are understood correctly, too. So we need to ask ourselves: what helps our learners understand and what do we need to teach? Our learners often blame their own linguistic shortcomings for any failure of communication, but mastering the words and grammar is only one part of the situation. Mediation and clarification strategies, pronunciation and cultural issues as well as communication styles all play their part. Therefore, I will use practical examples from my own teaching experiences to point out some tools and ways how we can support our learners to communicate more effectively.

How to take part in an international conference without financial investment (personal experience)

Have you ever given a talk at the international conference? One of the biggest conferences in ELT-community is the annual IATEFL Conference, and many teachers dream about attending it. How many teachers go ahead and make their dream come true? I am going to share my experience of taking part in IATEFL Conference as a scholarship winner. I hope that my experience will be useful to other teachers and will help them to become a speaker at IATEFL Conference next year.